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 PINNtPEDIA. 



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piroci [).F.. 



Genus Cystophora (Nil^soii, 1820). 



Generic Character. — Male with a large hood on nose, inflatile at will: 

 muzzle hairy. Skull with ossified portion of niesethmoid produced in front 

 of nasals. Teeth, inc. i, molars ^:|, with large roots and compressed plaited 

 crowns. 



HOODED SEAL. 



Cystoplwra cristata (Erxlcben). 



Specific Character. — Dark gi-ey above, spotted with an even darker .shade; 

 lighter beneath. Length of adult from seven to ten feet. 



Phoca cridata, 

 ,, leoniiia, 

 ,, mitrata, 



Ci/stophnra cristata, 



Erxleben, Syst. Reg. An., 590 (1777). 

 Fabricius, Fauna Grfcnl. (nee. Linn.) 1790. 

 CuviER, Ossem. Foss. V. 210. 

 NiLSsoN, Skand. Fauna (1820). 



Stemmatopus cri.itatus, F. Cuvikii, Diet. So. Nat., XXXIX. (1826). 



N'eitersoaJc of Greenlanders, Kkipmyds of Danes, Jiladdcr-nose of Sealers. 



Tins f^enu.s dillt-rs striklng'ly from the rest of the 



fainilv, l)()lh in its external and ()steoh)_o;ical cliaracters. 



Tlic nasal aperture ol' the skull is uiueh e.\ |).iiiiK'(l, and 



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